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Originally Posted by Amanda Grosjean
I never knew the Mona Lisa originally had eyebrow! I had always been told it was the fashion of the times. Interesting! It makes you wonder what other paintings have been damaged by cleaning over time.
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I think we might start another thread about damaged paintings, but here's an example about the Mona Lisa.
Her portrait was painted from 1503 to 1506. Raphael loved the portrait, which was much different from the one we can see today, and he did a sketch in order to use the pose. In his sketch the woman has eyebrows.
He borrowed the pose to do Maddalena Doni's portrait.
Both women have eyebrows and you can see eyebrows in Da Vinci's work too. The point is that many of his paintings seem to have been damaged by restorers, not only eyebrows, but clothing details and skin color too.
So, as we can see, it was not a matter of fashion.